@pylorns yeah so there should be an error getting logged somewhere, I run rollbar and send my exceptions/errors to a third party aggregator but there's probably a simple way to enable local console output if it's not there already

just need some more info on what exactly is causing the issue, I don't see anything obvious in the code ive checked that would be blowing up just by setting that field to null

but so so easy to check for: add canary values in your env files and grep for the canary in artifacts during the integration builds and testing.

to me, mastodon still feels like a project intended to be used (read deployed and maintained) with runbooks instead of fully automated processes and this kind of error is the price you pay for that decision IMO

we're on 2.4.0rc3 now, you will need to log in again later when I roll these keys

mastodon having its usual code quality issues, we leaked tons of secret env vars in some random javascript file, no improper access from what I've seen in the centralized logs but defintely had these values accessed so rolling everything anyways

I can't stop thinking about the potential of something like peertube. Still need to think through the incentives of various actors more but it seems like some kind of peertube+crypto system could replace youtube at scale and potentially provide more revenue to creaters than today, and without ads to boot.

putting out fires and plunging toilets for this mastodon instance - just a dude in oakland

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